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Alma Micic

The Hours

About Me

JAZZTIMES REVIEW The Hours (CTA)Belgrade-born, New York-based Berklee grad Alma Micic has a voice rich as silk yet ruggedly supple as vintage leather polished to a high luster. There’s a shadowed gentleness to her sound that suggests the hushed majesty of a star-filled night, though when she chooses to soar she seems capable of touching the sun. Throughout much of her sophomore album it is, however, the heavens she’s reaching for. In addition to the hushed beauty of two of her favorite spirituals, “Holy, Holy, Holy” and “Sweet, Sweet Spirit,” she speaks to her abiding faith in the potent “Threads” and shapes several of the album’s other originals around such noble themes as honesty, loyalty, generosity of spirit and selfless, eternal love. Still, not all of the disc’s paths point skyward. Her misty reading of “April in Paris” is intended to celebrate the Great American Songbook that initially lured her across the Atlantic. But it is “Long Way Home,” a bittersweet adieu to her grandmother based on the traditional folk song “No Dawn Yet,” that provides The Hours’ finest, most affecting moments.-Christopher Loudon

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Member Since: 1/28/2006
Band Website: almajazz.com
Band Members: trailer by Aleksandar Kostic, Aleksandar Kostic Films
Influences: Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Rosa Passos, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Haden, Bach, Purcell, Keith Jarret, Carlton Pearson, George Benson, Sharon Brown.LIVE AT THE MONTENEGRIN NATIONAL THEATER.. width="425" height="350" ..
Sounds Like:live@ Jazz Standard with Brandon McCune(pno), Sean Conly (bass), Israel Bannerman (drums) and Greg Tardy(tn)
Record Label: CTA Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"The Hours" review by George Caroll

CD Review/Alma Micic/The Hours/CTA006Jazz Singer Alma Micic is a 'Tower Of Power' as she offers us hervocal interpretations visa-vie her new CD project. Alma's natural phrasing & lovely vibrato make f...
Posted by Alma Micic on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:57:00 PST

Review of "The Hours" on EJazz News

By John GilbertPersonnel..On "The Hours", Alma Micic (Vocals) is joined by pianistBrandon McCune, bassist Sean Conly and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, alongwith guests Riley Bandy on alto saxophone and ...
Posted by Alma Micic on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:56:00 PST